Saints of the 21 of february

Memory of saint Peter Damiani (Damiano or Damian), Cardinal Bishop of Ostia and doctor of the Church. Having entered the hermitage of Fonte Avellana, he promoted hard religious life and in the difficult times of the reformation of the Church worked for the monks was under the sanctity of contemplation, the clerics to the integrity of life and that people keep the communion with the Apostolic See. He died on February 22 in Favència of Romagna.